Cas c4 level 1
flowchart TB
%% === Actors ===
Architect["👤 Architect / Engineer"]
Business["👤 Business Stakeholder"]
Governance["🏛️ Governance Forum
(Architecture Board)"]
%% === External Systems ===
CodeAgents["🤖 Coding Agents
(Codex, Claude, Gemini, Copilot)"]
CodeRepo["💻 Code Repositories"]
Runtime["⚙️ Runtime Systems"]
LLMs["🤖 LLM Providers
(OSS, Frontier, Local, Cloud)"]
CICD["🚀 CI/CD Pipeline"]
%% === System ===
CAS["🧠 CAS (Continuous Architecture System)
Transforms signals into:
-Architecture Work (AW)
-Architecture Evolution Map (AEM)
-Architecture Intent (AID)
-Architecture Decisions (ADR lifecycle)"]
%% === Interactions ===
%% Humans
Architect -->|Define / Review / Accept Decisions| CAS
Business -->|Provide Intent & Requirements| CAS
%% Inputs
CodeAgents -->|Architecture Context / SDD| CodeRepo -->|Code / Changes| CAS
Runtime -->|SEystem Signals / Telemetry| CAS
%% Intelligence
CAS -->|Context + Prompts| LLMs
LLMs -->|Generated Outputs| CAS
%% Governance
CAS -->|Submit ADR - Proposed| Governance
Governance -->|Approve / Reject / Defer| CAS
%% Delivery
CAS -->|Architecture Intent - AID| CICD
%% Feedback loop
CICD -->|Deployment Feedback| Runtime
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